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Director of OpsBranding Brand

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Branding Brand is searching for a Director of Ops to take our infrastructure, security, and performance to the next level. This candidate will manage as well as contribute to the operations team. This is a high-responsibility position with an ability to create massive impact on a daily basis for the company as well as its millions of users.

Responsibilities
Lead a team of systems/operations engineers in a 24/7/365 production environment
Maintain ownership of all infrastructure, security, uptime, performance, and web operations related business functions
Guide the direction and goals of the operations team to meet business goals
Manage cost of all infrastructure-related business functions
Ensure that client SLAs are met or exceeded
Act as spokesperson for all client communication pertaining to infrastructure, performance, and security
Adjust and automate processes and systems as necessary for optimal departmental efficiency
Act as a hands-on leader who can manage as well as contribute to the core systems

Desired Skills & Experience
Experience in a high-traffic, high-growth environment where constant iteration is key
Expert in Linux or -BSD
Expert with configuration management solutions such as Chef, Puppet, or CFEngine
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent ability to debug issues under pressure to meet SLAs
Experience working with and supporting software development efforts in staging, UAT, and production server environments
Experience building production systems in cloud server environments such as Amazon Web Services (VPC), Rackspace Cloud, etc.
Building distributed multi-region, multi-provider hosting environments
Experience with hardware and software load balancing using Nginx, Haproxy
Full-page caching using Nginx or Varnish
Experience with PaaS and IaaS and the technology that goes into building them
Experience with Juniper and Cisco network hardware
Routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF
Hardware and software VPNs and Firewalls
Experience building continuous deployment systems using tools such as Jenkins, Gitolite, Github, etc.
Experience with Redis, Memcached, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Experience building centralized logging systems using tools like Splunk, or preferably Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana
Experience with graphing tools such as collectd, statsd, graphite
Experience configuring monitoring systems such as Nagios, Munin, Monit, or Zenoss
Auto-scaling of web, load-balancer and application servers
Demonstrated ability in a programming language such as Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, NodeJS
Ability to create and maintain IT policies and enforce compliance (PCI DSS), including security and data privacy
Experience working with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ

Branding Brand powers mobile commerce sites and apps for over 200 of the world's leading retailers, including American Eagle Outfitters, Costco, and Ralph Lauren. Founded in 2008 by three friends from Carnegie Mellon University, the company launched a mobile platform at the end of 2009 to seamlessly extend brands into optimized experiences for smartphones, tablets, and in-store. It is now the largest m-commerce provider to the Internet Retailer Top 500. For more information, visit www.brandingbrand.com.